Capturing Labor

Jessica R. Pliley is a professor of women's and gender history at Texas State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI and the coeditor of Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy, and Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and "Immorality." John Mckiernan-Gonzalez is the director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest and an associate professor of history at Texas State University. He is the author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942, and coeditor of Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.

Introduction (Jessica R. Pliley and John Mckiernan-GonzAlez) I. Troubling Contracts: Limiting Worker Mobility in the Labor Market 1. Constructing Coercion: Labor Regimes and Sex Workers at the US-Mexico Borderlands (Erik Bernardino) 2. Cotton's Paradise: Coerced Labor and the Right to Live During the Great Depression in El Paso, Texas, 1931-1933 (Yolanda ChAvez Leyva) 3. "We Never Had No Payday Here": Folk Song, Forced Labor and the Carceral State in Texas (Jason Mellard) 4. Mario CantU and the Struggle Against Unfree Labor in San Antonio, Tejas, and Mexico, 1969-1984 (Jerry GonzAlez) II. Imprisoning Housework: (Re)producing Unfreedom 5. The Curse of Cane: Sugar, Race, and the Bittersweet Legacy of Prison Segregation in Texas, 1871-1926 (Jermaine Thibodeaux) 6. The Carceral Rescue Industry: World War I-Era Anti-Prostitution Campaigns in Texas (Anh Adams and Jessica R. Pliley) 7. Native Women and Unfree Labor: The Haskell Indian Boarding School Experience (Bethany Eby) 8. "Nobody Paid Me Anything": Forced Labor in California Institutions for the Feebleminded (Natalie Lira) Epilogue: Chasing (and Being Chased by) Slavery-A Borderlands Journey (Luis C. de Baca) Acknowledgments Index